Cargo Cult of Mars by Josh Pearce
There is a robot on Mars. This is a problem. It was put up/down there, initially, by itself, just a tangle of cement-printer nozzles on a cluster of all-terrain wheels, a slapped on sticker with the designation “RVR-1,” and pre-programmed instructions to extrude an entire village worth of habitat domes. And so it did, sending…